Meet the Team

BALLET TEACHER/POINTE TEACHER/MODERN TEACHER

Kathryn Wright received her early dance training at The Ballet Academy, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This is also where she started teaching Modern, Hip Hop and Ballet. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Dance and a Minor in Psychology from The University of Iowa. Throughout college, she taught Creative Movement and Hip Hop to children of all ages at City Ballet of Iowa and continued teaching at The Ballet Academy, Inc. Kathryn moved to Denver in 2013 to pursue her teaching career and is happy to have been a part of the VDC family since 2015. Kathryn teaches ballet at Virtuosty Dance Centre as an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.

LEADERSHIP TEAM DIRECTOR/TAP TEACHER/COMPANY CHOREOGRAPHER

Marissa Moschette is a born and raised Jersey girl who after college relocated to the beautiful foothills of Golden Colorado. Marissa has been studying dance since the age of 3 and was heavily involved in the National Competition Dance world since five. She has studied in many areas including: Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Hip-Hop, Tap, and Ballroom. During her training, she has had the honor and pleasure of dancing with tappers such as Anthony Morigerato, Hillary-Marie, Toby Harris, Mike Minery, and even the feet of “Mummbles”, the penguin of happy feet, Savion Glover. Marissa attended Rutgers University and graduated with a Bachelor in Science as well as a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Mason Gross School of Performing Arts. Before moving to Colorado, Marissa had been teaching and guest choreographing at numerous competitive studios throughout the Tri- State Area in styles of Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop, and Tap for the past 9 years. While creating and building new tap programs for three different studios, she was also very successful in her choreography for competitions. Not only has she received many choreography and special judges awards for her dances but has also received an invitation to The World Dance Championship with the Star Dance Alliance for the Junior Tap Production “Welcome to Bikini Bottom” and recently a Jazz Teen “Snap Clap”. Miss Marissa Moschette is no stranger to the competition dance world but more than competition she loves the life lessons dance teaches each student. It is so much more than dance and the passion she has for it is what she hopes most that she gets to pass on to her students. Marissa absolutely loves her VDC family and is honored to be a part of something so amazing. She looks forward to many years and a lot of growth with her VDC family!

TOT PROGRAM DIRECTOR/TOT TEACHER/ACRO TEACHER

Abbey Krostue is originally from Minnesota and is the Tot Program Director. She is so excited to work with our younger Hip-Hop and Tumbling dancers. Abbey has been dancing since age 3 and began dancing competitively in 5th grade. She then was on her high school dance team for 6 years (7th-12th grade) where she was awarded an All-Conference Award and held a Captain position her senior year. Abbey then came to Mines for school and joined the Mines Dance Team! She graduated from Mines with both her M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science in the Spring of 2023. Abbey now coaches the Chaparral High School JV Poms team in Parker and works as a Cyber Security Engineer in Centennial.

CONTEMPORARY TEACHER/GROOVALICIOUS TEACHER/ADULT MODERN TEACHER

Alicia Lindauer grew up in Rochester, NY. She took her first dance class at the age of 10 at the Draper Center for Dance Education and was hooked. Alicia attended School of the Arts in Rochester, NY where she studied theatre and dance along with her regular academic course load. She also took classes with Garth Fagan Dance, a contemporary dance company that fuses modern and Afro-Caribbean dance styles. While in college, Alicia danced and choreographed for Boston University’s Dance Theatre Group. She took weekly classes in modern, jazz, hip hop ballet and tap as well as master classes in an array of styles including breakdancing, belly dancing and movement improvisation. After college, Alicia spent a year teaching ballet and tap at A Leap Above Dance and ran the dance program for Discovering Dance Arts, a non-profit community group focused on bringing arts to youth in a rural community outside of Madison, WI. Alicia has continued to take dance classes wherever she finds herself in the world, including in Ann Arbor, MI, NYC, and Washington, DC. Alicia began taking Contemporary and Groovalicious at VDC in 2015. She has been a member of both the Groovalicious Troupe and Vivid Visions Dance Collective at VDC. She is very excited to be able to both dance and teach at VDC. She strives to keep her classes fun and challenge students to push the boundaries of their comfort zones. Her choreography is grounded in modern dance and she loves to mix in different styles. Alicia has a master’s degree from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Boston University with minors in Mathematics and Dance. When not dancing, climbing, or exploring the outdoors, she works as a Technology Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office managing a portfolio of renewable energy R&D projects.

MUSICAL THEATER TEACHER/LYRICAL TEACHER

Jeremy F is from Daytona Beach Florida and, as a late bloomer, started singing and dancing at 15. He studied under the direction of Jerome DeVito and Barbara Janisitis for 4 years taking any class available. Jeremy first started dancing professionally for Peter Grey Terhune Entertainment. He was casted on cruise ships for 2 years and danced across 60 countries and 6 continents. Jeremy then moved to NYC and studied with Finis Jhung from ABT and David Howard of NYCB daily whilst pursuing work in theater/dancing. He was given the opportunity to dance with the band “PHISH” at Madison Square Garden and also was involved in productions of Guys and Dolls, Hairspray, Seussical the Musical, Secret Garden, Meet Me in St. Louis, Jersey Boys, and Kiss Me Kate across multiple states theater houses. Jeremy has also worked as a Judge, Director, Assistant Director, and EMCEE for Dance Masters of America, International Dance Challenge, and Showbiz dance competitions.

HIP HOP TEACHER/JAZZ TEACHER

Priya Kumar grew up in Colorado. She teaches Hip Hop I, Jazz I, and Tot Hop and feels lucky to have her dream job at Virtuosity Dance Center in Golden, Colorado. Priya has been dancing since she could walk, but has been dancing at VDC since 2016. Her favorite styles of dance are hip hop and jazz. Priya was on Virtuosity's company team where she danced at local events, danced for a band in a music video, and made friendships that will last a lifetime. During her time on VDC's Elite team, she competed throughout the Denver area. Because of Priya's passion for dance, she started a dance team at her high school. She was able to dance with all of her school friends, which was a blast. Priya is currently attending University of Colorado Denver, studying Integrated Health Sciences. She plans to further her dance career on her college dance team. Dance is Priya's favorite way to express herself and cannot wait to teach her favorite little students about the art that she loves so much.

JAZZ TEACHER/COMPANY TEACHER

From Golden, CO, Olivia began dancing at VDC when she was 11 years old, a semester after the studio opened and is now a part of the Jazz and Company programs. She started assistance-teaching Creative Movement, Ballet, and Jazz classes when she was 14 and started teaching in the tots program when she was 16. She loves to focus on technique and teaching kids how to be expressive and comfortable in their own skin, while empowering them to be vulnerable. Her favorite styles of dance are Ballet and Jazz, but Contemporary has always been the style where she feels the most herself. Dance has always been Olivia's outlet and she knows she wouldn't be who she is today without her time at VDC. She recently graduated from MSU Denver with a degree in Exercise Science and is pursuing a career as a Physical Therapist for dancers. She hopes she can combine her love of anatomy with her passion for dance to help future dancers prevent and recover from injuries so that they can feel strong and always do what they love.

JAZZ TEACHER

Taylor Bazewicz grew up right here in Golden Colorado. She danced at Virtuosity Dance Centre for 6 years, where she learned to love dance. She started competing when she was 14 and found new inspiration in the competitive world. Taylor believes that getting training from new teachers is one of the best ways to improve as a dancer. She currently is going to Golden High School and is formerly on the dance team there. While on this team, Taylor was able to compete more as well as perform in football and basketball games, while learning to be on a team. She enjoys all types of dance and has been trained in all styles. Some of her favorites include Contemporary and Ballet. After highscool Taylor plans to continue dancing and it's her dream to work on a cruise ship before going to college and studying more in the art of dance. She is very excited to go into this new experience of teaching and learn from her students and help guide the young dancers into this lovely world of dance!